skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this level, governments are not much better than organized crime. As a low-level guy, you don't have leverage. Push too hard, and you'll force them to deal with you unpleasantly.

Salary and severance negotiations are easier when you have the threat of prison or death on your side.
So why are only 6% of scientists Republicans, when in Eisenhower's time it was 40%?
I tried a standing desk for a while, but didn't have a way to adjust the keyboard height, so it ended up causing strain for my neck and shoulders. I'd give it another shot with a more legitimate piece of furniture -- mine was makeshift.
Maybe some day they will add profile guided optimization to C compilers.
Kids today forget that actually kids back the day ran BBSs with C64s which wasn't quite the internet but still pretty cool: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/07/my_commodore_64.html

I also have very fond memories of dialing up Quantum Link which eventually became AOL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Link
Are you being sarcastic? Because wringing performance out of a known-working piece of C code is a pretty fun problem.
I'm 24. I've been addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, and WoW.

It's the same fucking thing. They use the same mechanics to tickle your dopamine receptors so you'll come back instead of looking out in the outside world for that same feeling of reward - family, friends, relationships all get fucked up because you spend your time seeking reward from {cigs, booze, drugs, WoW}.
I think they didn't buy it from the store because they went home and bought it online at a cheaper price whereas the luxurious apple supremacists have no problem shelling out lavish amounts of money for an apple designed usb drive.
There are many programs that algorithmically generate palettes based on the HSV color space. Note that since complementary colors are calculated by hue alone (a single dimension), there is no need for optimization.

Here is a web-app that I use often:

http://colorschemedesigner.com/
You can't work harder or smarter to make an ugly baby cute.
That PyPy example has nothing to do with C and everything to do with a particular implementation of libc.
>give them a couple of hours of alone time

are they allowed to delegate parts of the task to others?
From Wikipedia[1]:

> Silver's final 2008 presidential election forecast accurately predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia (missing only the prediction for Indiana). As his model predicted, the races in Missouri and North Carolina were particularly close. He also correctly predicted the winners of every U.S. Senate race. The accuracy of his predictions won him further acclaim, including abroad,[49] and added to his reputation as a leading political prognosticator.[50]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver#2008_U.S._elections
Urgh. I vastly prefer font rendering on Linux (Freetype). Those OSX screens look fuzzy and horrible. Although I'm at work atm and have a crappy low-DPI monitor.

At least it's not ClearType :/
> This post to me is an antithesis to rationality.

That might be overstating it a bit, no? If you're trying to offer constructive criticism, at any rate.

I disagree, though -- the central point is that you should realistically imagine your critique from the POV of the creator receiving it.

Sure, people should be able to rationally evaluate any critique, no matter how harshly framed, and filter out a few useful bits from it. In reality, most people have egos that are rather more humanly fragile than that, and you should act accordingly.

This, to me, is the heart of rationality: recognizing the reality of the situation (including emotional/psychological factors at play among the actual humans involved!) and acting in that context will bring you far more effective results than if you assume people are as they should be (but aren't).
A good reminder for those who appreciate Steve Jobs' philosophies.
I'm 43, single, no kids and did feel young until last December when both parents in their 70s became sick. Mom diagnosed as diabetic Dad with IPF (incurable lung disease, among other blue collar stuff).

Now I feel old. Nothing makes you feel old like realizing there is a definite point in time when your way of life will change, significantly.

I'm in the forever alone club but thought one day I'd meet a girl, no luck yet. I wanted to have kids and have my parents be grandparents since I never knew my Dad's father since he died at age 56. At most my parents have maybe ten years but their health is rapidly declining which is a shock.

Anyway at some point there will be some event that makes you go from feeling like 20 to feeling like 50.

It makes you give up Red Bull, stop eating crap and exercise but that's nothing like being healthy all your life, a last minute rush just won't do it.
The book is pretty good, sort of like a cross between Moneyball and Freakonomics. It's less political than you'd think it'd be, and as an attempt to preach the gospel of Bayesianism, should be congenial to most HN readers.
Yeah, the author used some strong language. He obviously should have started off each sentence with "In my humble opinion".

"Effective" is a value word, so no study can prove it without first defining it (which would probably require 4 or 5 studies itself). However, I believe he's merely referring to cognitive dissonance, which can be briefly stated as the reason we tend to resolve mental stress by ignoring logic.

Also he said it "can" have a horribly diminishing effect. He might only have been claiming 1 in 10922. That's a pretty weak proposition, ergo there are dozens of studies that proved it. In my humble opinion.
> I will tell you how it can be - if the JavaScript engine JITs the JS in a more optimized way than the C compiler compiled the C.

Yes. Exactly.
Let's say there are two languages A and B, and A is compiled (be it JIT or AOT) by a smarter compiler, resulting in faster code than the same program written in language B, how does that not make language A faster?

I do know that comparing interpreted/JITed code and AOT-compiled code is somewhat nonsensical, but then again, so is talking about "faster" and "slower" languages.
I think there may be some merit to this. The assumption of the patent troll may be that you will not look at their patents. (They are junk, remember?) They may just assume you will believe you need to hire a patent attorney and that the patents cannot even be assessed with so much as a sniff test without first spending thousands of dollars. And the cost will scare you into submission.

If you were to call the troll's bluff and go the distance (rare), eventually your patent litigator that you are paying through the nose is going to be challenging every possible claim in discussions with the troll's lawyers before anyone steps foot in a courtroom. Chances of success in court are going to be considered, and argued. The simple fact is the troll's chances might not be so great. Why do so many cases settle? The troll only needs to scare you into settling, and that's all. Mission accomplished.

I'd say the sooner you start asking those questions about the troll's chances, the more pressure you put on the troll. They have to pay their lawyers, by asking them to devote time to the matter, to deal with the questions in order to maintain fear in you. Meanwhile, in asking these questions you haven't had to pay any lawyers to look at the patents yet. (And they don't necessarily know that.)

The whole patent trolling system is built on fear and the high expense of patent litigation. Even for the most bogus patent claims, it can cost thousands of dollars to have a court declare them as such. Take away that expense, and the fear of having to pay it, and the trolling business goes "Pfft."
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I've been meaning to try setting up a standing desk, but there was a major earthquake where I live 2 years ago and 6 or so major aftershocks since. There is still a high change of another major aftershock so I can't really stack my monitor on random things.
And here was I thinking it was caused by players leaving the game in disgust over the latest expansion. Oh well.
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Yes, it's certainly a popular programming language name. Clozure does predate both of the others, however.
Well there's this, recently on HN:

http://blog.appfog.com/could-portland-be-the-best-city-in-th...
Good point. Best to be one-sided and myopic than risk being too kind!
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An equivalent claim:
Faster than Assembly? Parsing binary data in JavaScript.
Pah.
I'm not being sarcastic. I can see how it could be fun (in a particularly zen-coder way, in fact), except almost every performance issue I've had to deal with has shown itself in production, needing a fix yesterday.
WoW is not that sophisticated. Or perhaps a better way of thinking of it is that Blizzard wants to provide a highly predictable customer experience. The world has no real state so it's simply like being locked into parallel _identical_ dimensions.
As an ex-WoW addict allow me to disagree a bit.

"It's not like anybody suffers from second-hand MMORPG."

this is flat out wrong. Kids suffer when their parents can't bother to change them because they are in the middle of a raid and this boss hasn't been killed yet. Spouses suffer when the amount of time they can spend with their WoW playing spouse dwindles to zero. Parent's suffer when their kids grades head to zero.

So any behavior that can warp your life to that extent is a relatively poor choice with respect to any other behavior that does not.
As soon as I read about him sending anonymous letters to foreign governments, divulging details of confidential operations, I thought "what is he thinking, indictment for treason in 3, 2, 1". He really should have known better, especially given his experience serving in the Army, law enforcement, and then the CIA.

In the end, it was not surprising at all that the feds came down on him like a ton of bricks. It was surprising that he got a plea deal for a lesser sentence.
"Don’t make it easy for them. Require registration before granting access to whitepapers, detailed documents, or video tutorials that delve into the behind-the-scenes details. Think twice about being on customer lists or advertising the ins and outs of your business, the products you use, etc., unless there’s a good business reason for doing so."

This seems like a great way to kneecap your business. Make it hard for potential customers to evaluate you (so they end up choosing companies that are more open), make it less likely that you will get positive buzz in tech or press circles, make it less likely that people will feel confident about your product as a result of understanding it, and make it harder for new customers to learn how to use your product. All because you're afraid of patent suits!
Yes - the starting position is to lie face down. See here: http://www.tinajuanfitness.info/exercises/mod%20upward%20dog...
No plagiarism? Why not? If s/he can download a piece of open source software that can do the job, I would call that a pretty successful test. That's what a good developer would do on the job. And it isnt plagiarism if s/he leaves in the original copyright/whatever.
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You could use the security kensington lock feature available on many monitors to act as a "catch" so it won't fall over.
it's fixed: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5616171565
I was amazed he was able to push as hard as he was before the hammer came down.

Seriously. Being a whistle-blower is one thing. Being a rogue canon playing fast and loose with national security so you can negotiate a better pension settlement is something else entirely.
that is pretty cool. I'm sure there are many use cases for that, i just can't think of any off the top of my head.
"The studies he's citing have been cherry-picked by him to support his opinion."

What makes you think they have been cherry picked? The studies he cites (and the one by Ionnidis I mentioned) are the only studies of reproducibility that I've seen, and they're the only ones that the Wikipedia article on reproducibility cites.
It isn't rich and detailed. It's a wall of text from someone who is bad at arguing.
I find it frustrating how this article vacillates between "criticism" and "mean and/or unconstructive criticism". The article's thesis is that all public criticism is bad, but in supporting this, the author uses attacks that apply exclusively to unconstructive harsh criticism.

For example, while people may refer to a project as "their baby", the "calling someone's baby ugly" analogy stretches the metaphor to the breaking point. A baby's appearance is set and there was nothing the parents could do to affect it in the first place. Constructive criticism of a project, on the other hand, can serve to improve the project, as well as being instructive for anyone working on similar projects in the future.

Of course, the author then does say that "disagreeing" is OK as long as you do it tactfully. OK, fine. But that there's a word for that: "criticism".

Finally, we have this notion:

>Along this same idea, it is good to not talk about problems without offering up solutions. Doing this is called complaining.

Proposing solutions before discussing the problem is a cognitive antipattern (see http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/). If you try to solve a problem without carefully thinking about it and discussing it first, you will arrive at inferior solutions.

We should try to respect other people's feelings, but we cannot do so at the expense of progress.
Could this technique also work for video?
This isn't a literal simulation of real-life work, it's a programming test. Certainly gluing together free components is an important skill for any developer, but I would expect anyone interviewing for a medium to senior level position to be able to trivially do that.
Best to be honest and direct with your feedback than worry about whether or not you are going to bruise the delicate ego of whomever you are giving the feedback to.

No that doesn't excuse being a dick but if I have the choice of getting honest but harsh criticism of something I've built versus somebody grinfucking me, I'll take the harsh criticism every single time.
Misleading title.

It's not an actual marker, but some electronics built in to a marker shell.
You're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say anything like that and you don't need to be so damn condescending about it.
I think obsession with EVE is yet another example of the kind of Stockholm Syndrome like devotion intentionally tedious MMOs engender in players (I speak as a recovering victim, although not of EVE which is unbelievably tedious and boring even by the pretty vaunted standards set by earlier MMOs).

http://loewald.com/blog/?p=59
I'm sorry for your troubles, but not everything that touches dopamine is an addiction.
This argument reminds me of when I was 15 and trying to explain Unix security to my democoder friend, who kept insisting that he could bypass file permissions by just programming directly to the hardware and reading the bits off the disk.

If you want to keep arguing that every other language merely asymptotically approaches the performance of x86_64 assembly, that is a fine (if dumb) position. But the argument that C has a monopoly on assembly code generation is silly, as is the argument that C compilers are inherently better at code generation than all other compilers. Look at the LuaJIT2 direct-threading post upthread for an infamous example of a performant dispatching structure that isn't easily expressible in ANSI C.
Try the X230 IPS screen or any of the 15" screens. Lenovo's T400 series screens are truly notoriously bad.
Your argument is the same as the arguments that higher level arguments cannot be faster than assembly.

In theory, any optimization available to a compiler is also available to an assembly programmer. In practice humans do not match automation. This has been demonstrated both in theory and practice for decades.

There is no limit to the level of language that this argument could theoretically apply to. In practice the run-time guarantees and programmatic indirection that we demand in high level languages make the task insurmountable for current programs. But never underestimate what can happen with a good compiler and the right program.
> Except it can do also a lot of other bad things, and its too much to review. So in the end you trust the tree owner, and he blindly trust a zillion people.

> I actually have zero good solution to this, but it'll be interesting when it is used for a large attack.

The only solution is intelligence and prudence on the part of the tree owners. Large software systems need to ultimately be in the hands of smart and wise people. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case here.
(I'm not the poster, but you can find the times of reddit links by mousing over the timestamp.)

* Found this on my windshield today. Good people rule. - Mon Jul 2 19:50:42 2012 UTC

* 15 years ago my mom made me take "glamour shots". She sent me this today. - Wed Sep 12 12:18:08 2012 UTC

* Photographer snuck this gem into my cousins wedding album. - Fri Sep 14 00:41:23 2012 UTC

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The best times to post are given here: http://blog.reddit.com/2011/07/nerd-talk-tale-of-life-of-lin...
"He is a biased liberal and reading any of his commentary should be viewed through that lens."

Are we reading the same blog? I've never seen him take sides on any issue.
The Microsoft stores are going to be used to market the Surface line of devices. Microsoft figured that the Best Buy folks were not doing a good job and could probably steer people away from Microsoft products. So we will see this strategy come into effect in 20 days when Windows 8 launches and the Microsoft stores and the popup stores in the malls will be the only places where you can buy a Surface.
That by itself is rarely a solution, especially these days. People store very important stuff in their home directories. It would need to be something like an isolated user account, a virtual machine, or a browser window.
You just wrote off everything I said except the word "dopamine." Given your outright advocacy ("anti-gamer") throughout this thread, it seems you aren't interested in a real discussion.
So, the Shuffle was to put pressure on the low end of the market?

If they can sell a tablet for $199 and still make $30 profit, they can put a heck of a lot of price pressure on competitors.
> Large software systems need to ultimately be in the hands of smart and wise people. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case here.

Wow, it must be awesome to be you.
If you or anyone does not know what a high/low level or structured language means - that is fine.

But WHY would you attempt to make arguments that require basic understanding of such things.
If someone watches football as obsessively as folks play WoW then I'd agree. But if your child falls over and needs attention you can get up and deal with it without "letting down your group/team/guild". I know of multiple cases of child neglect by players... indeed, my wife and I gave up WoW cold turkey when we realized one of our twins had a fever and we hadn't noticed for several hours because we were so engrossed in the game. Haven't played seriously since.
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Didn't say I was one of them. Enjoy your strawman. Personally, I prefer a bit more flavor. Though your implicit ad-hominem tastes a bit juicy.

Writing a package manager is actually really serious business. This package manager runs under user credentials and is expected to modify the filesystem. You can't sandbox around those requirements. No amount of whinging avoids that. This story is one of many examples why you can't take it trivially.

If you're afraid to point out incompetence - and where it is most dangerous - you won't know it when you see it. And it will bite you, hard.
Given that it impressed epidemiologists with how realistically it spread, I think it deserves a wiki, even in real world terms.
> These small cameras make heaps of trade offs

This is true, but it's not really so clear in this case. The dpreview review came to the conclusion that the weird tinge was probably an inadvertent result of a combination of various factors, and it seems quite possible that Apple simply didn't realize it was there.

Even if it was an intentional tradeoff for some other advantage (e.g. a harder-to-scratch lens), it seems obvious enough that Apple misjudged its impact, and that it bothers people more than they expected.

Clearly it's very possible to make a great cellphone camera without the tinge (as evidenced by the many phones that have them), so it seems pretty likely to me that Apple will quietly fix this in the next model. Even Apple lives and learns (with the iphone 5 more than usual, it seems)...

[This is annoying to me because I love shooting into the sun. I was vaguely thinking of picking up an iphone 5, but this and other factors (e.g. the crappy maps) have put a real damper on that thought.... oh well... :( ]
I tend to avoid complimenting or insulting ugly offspring. Instead, I note whether you can deduce their parentage from their physical characteristics and/or their demeanor. Parents tend to accept these comments as compliments.

To apply this analogy to software ... I just don't. I don't know the "parents" in most cases. I simply evaluate the software, look at whether it meets my needs, evaluate whether its shortcomings prevent me from using it. And if I don't like it I just move on. If you're looking for criticism and suggestions from me on your software, A) you're at least an acquaintance (or I've prepaid for your app) and B) you should be able to accept that criticism. I'm not in the habit of grabbing a random app and calling it ugly.
> Why We’ll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs ...

And I though that had already happened.

> Jobs has joined the pantheon of greats who advanced science and industry and society itself ...

Maybe we should let history decide this, over a much longer time than has passed since Steve's departure. It's already clear that he can't be compared to Edison or Tesla, both of whom invented technology, where Steve promoted technology invented by others, including me.

Steve might eventually be compared to Ford, but that's the only one of the three to whom he is compared that actually makes sense.
Sorry, but my son was actually an ugly baby... at least for the first few weeks after birth. People who think their babies are always beautiful are the same empty people that demand that everyone be a winner, because they can't stand the objective evaluation that they may, in fact, be losers.

When I code, I always assume I'm wrong and missed something. Find a coder that thinks his new "baby" isn't ugly, and I'll show you an amateur that can't be trusted for production work.
They could have rather easily added other watermarks, for videos, etc. There are lots of watermarking techniques that survive lossy compression.
Ultimately the tree owners need to be bigger and have more resources devoted to them. The rails project routinely gets major bugs fixed in under a day.
Yes - easily circumvented though with a few tweaks to the config.
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Oh yeah it's a great stretch. I learned of it from gymnastics. Alternated between a bent over knees with head on ground and arm forward in a kind of prayer pose and that stretch.

The lying twist stretch is good too.